Frédéric Bastiat captured the essence of modern politics in a single sentence:
— Creative Deduction (@CreativeDeduct) July 11, 2026
“The State is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”
Once the state becomes the primary mechanism for distributing resources, politics stops being about… pic.twitter.com/BcgmSq9Zrt
The patterns of light on the sea floor.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 12, 2026
They are called caustics: they are created by light refracted and reflected from the air/water interface. Water acts as a dynamic magnifying glass. pic.twitter.com/OzJtYxZq7e
I seem to be alone here but I'm going to admit something: for years, I didn't know the cart return was such a sensitive thing.
— Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️♂️💼🥋 (@SharylAttkisson) July 11, 2026
I usually returned it to the right place, but when it's been 0-degrees and windy or pouring rain, I might leave it nestled securely on a grass… https://t.co/9SQnTWkXf9
Just over a decade ago, 1% of LSATs were taken under disability accommodations.
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) July 10, 2026
By 2023, it was 11%.
Disability accommodations are killing the ability of standardized tests to be a force for merit. We're now rewarding liars and cheats. https://t.co/sJK69coX6H pic.twitter.com/5H68iNoxKf
The Art of Conversation, 1963 by René Magritte (Belgium, 1898-1967)
At this point I reveal myself in my true colours, as a stick-in-the-mud. I hold a number of beliefs that have been repudiated by the liveliest intellects of our time. I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and 1am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves. I also hold one or two beliefs that are more difficult to put shortly. For example, I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people’s feelings by satisfying our own egos. And I think we should remember that we are part of a great whole, which for convenience we call nature. All living things are our brothers and sisters. Above all, I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.
I said at the beginning that it is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. Fifty years ago W. B. Yeats, who was more like a man of genius than anyone I have ever known, wrote a famous prophetic poem.Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.
Islam came close to destroying the Christian West in the half-century following the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Christendom was imploding. A century after 1453, Europe was well launched on its project of sudduing the rest of the world, a project that lasted 400 years. Then it… https://t.co/nBx8qnbi8A
— eburke (@JamesWHankins1) July 11, 2026
David is being kind of jokey, but I think you could describe the current left wing project as trying to create "working class" consciousness around A when the biggest cleavage in American politics is actually D. https://t.co/6TVPhdBkj3
— Jordan Weissmann (@JHWeissmann) July 10, 2026
Reconstitution à grande échelle de lansquenets, présentée au Frundsbergfest 2026 à Mindelheim (Allemagne). https://t.co/zu2EKr9465 pic.twitter.com/7VVNSDfJXE
— Histoire & Odyssée (@HistoireOdyssee) July 11, 2026
Quando sei in vacanza fuori dall'UE 🤣 pic.twitter.com/Hl9IFLXscF
— Chance🤺 🍊 (@ChanceGardi) July 10, 2026
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